Offences in connection with requests for authorisations U.K.

3.  Any person who, in connection with a request for authorisation pursuant to Article 7(1) of the EC Regulation—

(a) makes any statement or furnishes any document or information which to his knowledge is false in a material particular;

(b) recklessly makes any statement or furnishes any document or information which is false in a material particular; or

(c) fails, without reasonable excuse, to make a statement or furnish any document or information which may be relevant to the request for authorisation,

is guilty of an offence.